# About Hot Air Balloon Index

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A small, independent price index for hot-air balloon flights, published as a plan before it is published as data.

Hot Air Balloon Index has not published any flights rows yet. The first check is pending, so nothing on this site is a measured figure.

A comparison page is published once we can count at least 5 flights on it.

Hot Air Balloon Index is a small, independent price index for hot-air balloon flights. It is run by a two-person editorial team working in Bogotá, and it is not owned by, funded by or affiliated with any balloon operator or booking marketplace.

There is already a careful English comparison of balloon operators across dozens of places, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. This site is being built where that work is thin: Spanish-language pages for Teotihuacán, Segovia and the rest of the Spanish-speaking market, written first rather than translated last, and a figure nobody publishes — how often a flight at a given site in a given month actually leaves the ground.

Nothing on the site is measured yet. It is published as a plan: each page states the fields its table will carry, where each field will be read from, and how often it will be re-checked. Every page carries a robots noindex instruction and every sitemap is empty until that page’s rows exist. We would rather publish an honest empty shell than a page padded with zeroes.

We write in Spanish, English and French. The numbers behind every language are the same rows from the same checks, read on the same day.

## Destinations

- [Cappadocia](https://hotairballoonindex.com/hot-air-balloon-rides/cappadocia/)
- [Teotihuacán](https://hotairballoonindex.com/hot-air-balloon-rides/teotihuacan/)
- [Segovia](https://hotairballoonindex.com/hot-air-balloon-rides/segovia/)

## Where does Hot Air Balloon Index get these numbers?

Nothing is sourced yet. When the first check runs, every row will carry the operator or marketplace listing it was read from and the date it was read. The monthly flight-odds layer will be computed from wind and fog climate normals and, where a site publishes one, from its own daily flight-status record; the methodology page will name each source and its reuse terms.

## Do you earn money from the links?

We may earn a commission if you book through links on this page, at no extra cost to you. No booking links are live yet.

## Why is a place missing?

A place is published once we can count at least 5 flights there. Smaller places wait until the list is more useful.

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